Tiruanantapuram
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Tiruanantapuram (तिरुअनंतपुरम्), commonly known by its former name Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala.
Origin
The city takes its name from the Malayalam word thiru-anantha-puram, meaning "The City of Lord Ananta",[1] referring to the deity of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple located in the city. Thiruvananthapuram is also known in the literature, and popular reference as Ananthapuri derived from the Sanskrit word Syanandurapuram, meaning "The City of Bliss" in Carnatic kirtanas composed by Swathi Thirunal, erstwhile Maharaja of Travancore.[2] The city was officially referred to as Trivandrum until 1991, (Trivandrum being the anglicised name of the town) when the government decided to reinstate the city's original name Thiruvananthapuram.[3]
Variants
- Tiruvindam तिरुविंदम् = Trivendram त्रिवेन्द्रम (AS, p.404)
- Tiruanantapuram (तिरुअनंतपुरम्) = Trivendram त्रिवेन्द्रम् (AS, p.401)
- Trivendram त्रिवेन्द्रम् (केरल) (AS, p.418)
- Thiruvananthapuram (तिरुवनंतपुरम्)
- Ananthapuri/Anantapuri (अनंतपुरी)
History
The Ays ruled the present region of Thiruvananthapuram until the 10th century. With their fall in the 10th century, the city was taken over by the Chera dynasty. The city was later taken over by the Kingdom of Venad in the 12th century.[4] In the 17th century the king Marthanda Varma expanded the territory and founded the princely state of Travancore and Thiruvananthapuram was made capital of Travancore.[5] Following India's independence in 1947, Thiruvananthapuram became the capital of Travancore-Cochin state and remained capital when the new Indian state of Kerala was formed in 1956.[6]
त्रिवेंद्रम (केरल)
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[7] ने लेख किया है ...त्रिवेंद्रम (केरल) (AS, p.418) तिरुवांकुर (ट्रावनकोर) की भूतपूर्व राजधानी है. 18 वीं सदी में राजा मार्तंड वर्मा ने केरल देश की सीमाएं विस्तृत करने के पश्चात इस नगर में अपनी राजधानी स्थापित की थी. इस नगर के अधिष्ठातृ-देव पद्मनाथ को उन्होंने अपना राज्य समर्पण कर दिया था तथा स्वयं देवता के प्रतिनिधि के रूप में राज्य करते थे. यहां पद्मनाथ विष्णु का विशाल मंदिर है. उन्हें अनंतस्वामी भी कहते हैं. जान पड़ता है कि तिरुविंदम् या त्रिवेंद्रम तिरुअनंतपुरम् का ही रूपांतर है.
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References
- ↑ "About Thiruvananthapuram". Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010.
- ↑ "Swati manuscripts found". The Hindu
- ↑ Balid, Vivek; Chatterji, Miabi; Reddy, Sujani; Vimalassery, Manu (2013). The sun never sets : South Asian migrants in an age of U.S. power. New York: NYU Pre
- ↑ Sreedhara Menon, A (2011). Kerala History and its Makers. D C Books. p. 35. ISBN 9788126437825.
- ↑ Boland-Crewe, Tara; Lea, David (2003). The Territories and States of India. Routledge. ISBN 9781135356255.
- ↑ Abram, David; Edwards, Nick (2003). The Rough Guide to South India. Rough Guides. p. 306. ISBN 9781843531036.
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.418